“I don’t want those cameras on me,” she said, as her attorneys repeatedly tried to quiet her. “Y’all want to kill somebody… This is crazy."

Bradley, 30, apparently was referring to the fact that she still faces charges that could bring the death penalty. On Tuesday, she again turned down a plea deal in her daughter’s death.

The hearing, in Hamilton County Common Pleas Court before Judge Robert Ruehlman, took place a day after another judge sentenced her onetime boyfriend to die by lethal injection in the killing of their 2-year-old daughter, Glenara. Glen Bates was found guilty last month of charges including aggravated murder.

Bradley’s attorneys have argued that she cannot face the death penalty because she is intellectually disabled. Experts have determined that her IQ is in the mid-60s, below the threshold of 75.

Her attorneys also say she has been under psychiatric care much of her life.

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Judge Robert Ruehlman(Photo: The Enquirer/Patrick Reddy)

“Andrea has documented mental issues from childhood on,” her attorney, Will Welsh, said in an interview.

Her mother, Desena Bradley, said she believed Bradley had not been taking her medication.

“She has real serious issues,” her mother said without being specific. She also apologized to reporters for Bradley's outbursts.

The next court hearing is set for Nov. 2. At that time, Ruehlman could decide whether Bradley has an intellectual disability.

Prosecutors say both Bradley and Bates were responsible for the death of Glenara, who was starved, burned, beaten and ultimately slammed against a door frame by Bates before she died in March 2015.

Bates lived on and off with Bradley, Glenara and five other children in a rented house in East Walnut Hills. Bates is the father of three of Bradley’s children, including a child Bradley gave birth to last year while she was in jail, awaiting trial in Glenara’s killing.

Glenara was the only child targeted for extreme abuse, according to prosecutors. She slept in a bathroom, and Bates told police that when the family went out, Glenara would be left behind “in a bathroom tub with a can of food.”

In a video-recorded interview, a police detective asked Bates: “Why the bathroom?”

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